IOOS Program Office Update

SCCOOS Board Meeting

Zdenka Willis

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U.S. IOOS Program – Office Activities

• Realign Staff Roles and Responsibilities– Identify Regional and Functional POCs

• 1st Meeting of the Federal Advisory Committee• Summit Planning• National Glider Strategy

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By the Numbers

• FY13: Continuing Resolution passed – until 27 March– Pres Bud: NOAA IOOS: 6.533M; Regional IOOS: 29,520M

• 14,520 RCOOS; 5M HF Radar; 10M sensor innovation– Senate Mark: NOAA IOOS: 6.533M; Regional IOOS 31,055M

• Committee's recommendation provides no less than $26,055,000 for regional partnerships and $5,000,000 for external funding to test and advance sensor technology development.

– House Mark: NOAA IOOS: 4.9M; Regional IOOS; 26,568M• IOOS … shall ensure that sufficient resources are allocated for verification and

validation of existing equipment.– BUT - Potential Sequestration – 8.2% for NOAA

• FY14: NOAA budget is at OMB

FY 12

Advisory Committee

First Meeting – 29-30, August 2012 in Washington, DC• Rick Spinrad – committee chair, Oregon State University• C.J. Beegle-Krause – Environmental Research for Decision• Terence Browne – Collins Engineers, Inc.• Tom Gulbransen – vice chair, Battelle Memorial Institute• Ann Jochens – Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System• Val Klump – Great Lakes WATER (Wisconsin Aquatic Technology and Environmental

Research) Institute, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee• Lynn Leonard – University of North Carolina at Wilmington• Justin Manley – Teledyne Benthos, Inc.• LaVerne Ragster – University of the Virgin Islands• Tony MacDonald – Urban Coast Institute at Monmouth University• Chris Ostrander – Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System• Emily Pidegon – Conservation International• Eric Terrill – Scripps Institution of Oceanography

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DMAC IS NOW!

• SOS Reference Implementation• IOOS Catalog V3• QARTOD• Animal Telemetry Network• Biological Project – Gulf of Mexico & South

East• Annual U.S. IOOS DMAC Meeting

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SOS Reference Implementation

• With common data access services we can begin to share applications and products.

• Recent and near term efforts will lower the barrier of entry for every region deploying SOS services

• All RAs committed to using one of two open source SOS implementations

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U.S. IOOS Summit

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A Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS)

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Global HF Radar Network

• Under the Group Earth Observations (GEO)– 88 Member governments and the European Commission, working with 61 Participating

Organizations focused on the importance of Earth Observations to Societal Benefits

• Component under 2 Tasks in the GEO workplan 2012-2015– IIN-01 Earth Observing Systems– SB-01 Oceans and Society: Blue Planet

• Kicked off at Oceanology International March and 1st Ocean Radar Conference for Asia

• Goals:– Transform individual HF Radar networks into a global system where we can

provide high quality HF Radar for a range of used. – Development of easy to use standard products– Assimilate HF Radar data into models– Development of easy to use standard products 10

Global HF Radar Assets

http://assets.maracoos.org/

Global HF Radar Assets

National Glider Strategy

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